Sheep-hook.



H. E. NEWMAN.

SHEEP HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20. 1914.

Patented Dec; 12, 1,916.

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HENRY EDWARD NEWMAN, OF-LEMHI, IDAHO.

SHEEP-HOOK.

Application filed March 20, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY E. NEWMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lemhi, in the county of Lemhi and State of Idaho, have made an Improvement in Sheep-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in the class of telescopic sheep-hooks, and the feature of novelty is the joint formed between the hollow, slidable, telescopic sections comprising the pole or handle of the device.

The details of construction arrangement, and combination of parts embodying the invention are as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is in part a side view, and in part a longitudinal section of my improved sheep-hook when telescoped or collapsed. Fig. 2 is a side View illustrating the extension of the hook when formed of four parts, the butt or handle portion being omitted. Fig. 8 is an enlarged cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal section illustrating the joint between the different slidable sections. Fig. 5 is a sectional view illustrating the attachment of the hook proper to the outer telescopic section. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the butt end of the pole.

The numeral 1 indicates the butt or handle section, 2 the next section which slides into or telescopes with No. 1, while numeral 4 indicates the smallest or outer end section, and 3 is applied to the sections which intervene 2 and 4. In Fig. 1 the hook is telescoped so that it is reduced to its shortest length. In the sectional view of Fig. 4, the section 2 is shown drawn out at 8, as far as possible, and section 2 is telescoped into the handle or butt section 1.

It will be seen that the outer end 1* of the butt section 1 is slightly contracted and tapered and that it is provided interiorly at the base of the taper with a ring 5, which serves as a stop for section 2 when the latter is drawn out as shown in Fig. 2. The outer end of section 2 is also contracted and tapered as shown at 6, and at the base of this tapered portion is a ring 7, which, when section 2 is shoved into section 1, abuts the outer end of the latter and thus serves as a stop. The ring also projects on the inner side of the taper 6 and thus serves also as a stop for section 3 when drawn out; in other Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

Serial No. 826,034.

words, the said section 3 has a base or butt portion 8 which is tapered and provided at the lower end with an external flange 9 that serves as a shoulder and contacts with the ring 7 of section 2 when section 3 is drawn out as in Fig. 4. Thus all the sections have a base shoulder which is indicated in Fig. 4 by numerals 5 and 9, and all sections, save the butt 1, have also a base shoulder 7 which projects outward and inward and serves practically as a double stop. It will be seen that when the handle is extended, as shown in Fig. 2, every section which slides within another will form a close oint, as shown in Fig. 4 where the tapered part 8 of section 3 fits snugly into the tapered portion 6, of section 2, and its exterior shoulder 9 abuts the shoulder 7 of section 2. Thus the several shoulders serve as stops both when the sections are closed together as shown in Fig. 1, and also when drawn out as in Fig. 2. The tapered portions fit snugly together when the sections are extended, as in Fig. 2, and the pole is then practically rigid.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 5, the hook proper 10 has a threaded cylindrical shank which screws into a bored and threaded plug 11, the latter being brazed or otherwise secured in the outer end of the outer telescopic section 4.

For holding the several tubular sections in the collapsed or telescoped condition represented in Fig. 1, I provide a friction fas tening which is attached to the dust-cap 1 of the butt section 1, and is adapted to engage the flanged butt end of the outer section 4, as represented in Fig. 1. The said section 4 is made of greater length than the others, so that when the pole is collapsed or telescoped as in Fig. 1, the butt end of said section will engage the fastening. The latter consists of a bowed spring 12 (see Figs. 1 and 6), the same being riveted to the dust-cap 1 and its arms curved outward at the middle and inward at their upper ends, which form adapts the fastening for entering the bowed end of the hook section 4, as shown in Fig. 1. The friction between these parts 1 and 12 is sufficient to hold the several sections telescoped as shown in Fig. 1, so that the implement may be suspended by the hook from a saddle without danger of the sections separating or sliding out as in dicated in Fig. 2.

What I claim is In a telescopic pole or handle, the combination With a series of hollow sections telethe sections are telescoped, the spring will scopically arranged, of the friction fastenengage with the inner or butt end of the 13 ing for holding them telesooped, the same outer-end section, as described.

consistin of a s rin havin its ends bowed inward 5nd attaibhed to the? bottom of the HENRY EDWARD NEWMAN main telescopic section, the telescopic outer- Vitnesses:

end section 4 being of greater length than FRANK W. PYRATT,

any of the other sections, whereby, when FRANK SCHWARTZ.

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